Tartan pattern on one of my favorite shirts
A friend reminded me of my comfy-wear today. Here’s a short description of what I call comfy-wear.
- Tartan long sleeve shirt (pattern shown in the picture), preferably in full cotton or similar soft cloths, with the sleeves rolled up to just above the elbows and not tucked in, with a white full cotton t-shirt under it, and normally one pen and a permanent marker on the pocket.
- Thick and semi-loose cotton pants with big pockets, or soft loose jeans.
- Brown thick leather two-strap sandals with a back strap, these had a very comfortable-like-a-sneaker-shoe feeling to the straps, not the usual leather-to-your-skin sandals.
- All these in dark colors, wine-red, green, blue, brown, black.
- No rings, watches, bracelets, or other jewelry-type thingies.
- My backpack with all my stuff. I have, over the years learnt to consider it part of my clothing.
So this is how I used to go to school, and I loved it. I have had to stop using it because now I have a job with a big business/corporate atmosphere and go to school from work.
So, I was this guy, going around on those clothes, long hair worn loose and beard, with glasses, and on bad-hair days a simple loose ponytail, and/or a baseball hat without any logos in the same tartan pattern or plain, same dark colors mentioned before.
Yes, I’m a geek, and that’s how I like to dress since it is as comfortable as it gets, and no crummy/crufty/untidy aura that might be related to such loosely worn garments, needless to say I always remain clean good smelling.
And yes, I like tartan/plaid/checked-patterns on clothes.
Note: took the liberty of highlighting some stuff by putting them in bold. I apologize for any mistakes in the lyrics transcription, since I didn’t find any reliable source for them.
“Short Skirt/Long Jacket” by Cake:
I want a girl with a mind like a diamond.
I want a girl who knows what’s best.
I want a girl with shoes that cut,
And eyes that burn like cigarettes.
I want a girl with the right allocations,
Who’s fast and thorough,
And sharp as a tack.
She’s playing with her jewelry.
She’s putting up her hair.
She’s touring the facility,
And picking up slack.
I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket…
I want a girl who gets up early.
I want a girl who stays up late.
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity,
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape;
With fingernails that shine like justice,
And a voice that is dark like tinted glass.
She is fast, thorough,
And sharp as a tack,
She’s touring the facility,
And picking up slack.
I want a girl with a short skirt and a long… long jacket.
I want a girl with a smooth liquidation.
I want a girl with good dividends.
At Citibank we will meet accidentally,
We’ll start to talk when she borrows my pen.
She wants a car with a cupholder arm rest,
She wants a car that will get her there,
She’s changing her name from Kitty to Karen,
She’s trading her MG for a white Chrysler La Baron.
I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket…
Read more at Wikipedia:Short Skirt/Long Jacket.
Just a little note… today one of the least expected things in the office happened… my boss prompted me to join his mafia in facebook… go figure.
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Note: This post turned out to be pretty long for my own reading/writing standards, feel free to take bio breaks while reading. There’s also NO TLDR version.
First of all, credit to whom is due, Rappelz is a game by nFlavor/Gala-Net Inc, and all the graphics and screenshots are of the game and grabbed/taken by one of my best friends (their character names on the screenshots) of the Tortus server.
I’ve started playing a new (for me) mmorpg, Rappelz. I have three friends playing it, specially two of my best friends, and enjoying it, and since it’s free I dediced I’d give it a try.
I’ve not gotten to level my character too high, but I’m working on it and have gotten at least a taste of what the game is. At the moment I have a Gaia Fighter, at level 32, and job level 30 named Deneor in the Tortus server, he’s on the process of being an Archer.
I decided to write this review for a couple of reasons:
- As feedback to my friends that already play the game, so that they know the awesome things we have on the game they are playing and the things we are missing in it.
- As feedback for the game developers (see #1).
- As an overview/introduction for anyone that approaches this game without knowing anyone that plays it.
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Note: This is a re-post, with or without allusion to When freedom expired…, this is by no means a declaration of intent anyways, I put it here because I find it extremely educational and nurturing to the old points I knew about this. I took the liberty of modifying a bit the format of the <pre>’d text and abbreviated some words on long lines to better fit the theme of my blog. Sorry, there’s a line I decided not to break and couldn’t abbreviate, live with it.
Everything below this line is a re-post from OpenBSD Journal – Tunnelling out of corporate networks (Part 1), credit to whom is due.
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Word of the day: Moronic
According to wordnetweb.princeton.edu:
Moron: S: (n) idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard (a person of subnormal intelligence)
<rant>
Due to some moronic rules/policies or the people that came up with them… or the people that weren’t fit for a “loose” system made the system tighten… now I see a message like this:
Content is blocked by your organization
Reason: This category of ___________ is being filtered: Social Networking and Personal Sites
URL: <URLHERE>
Funny that on some sites something like this reads:
To view sites on this category, you must use your quota time. You are provided with 60 minutes of quota. Click on the button “Use quota” to begin to use your allotted time in periods of 10 minutes to view this and other sites on categories limited by quota.
So, now we see that the system was too loose for some (immature) people, and now they made the whole thing tighter to the point of making the misfits as well as everyone else uncomfortable, everyone, including those who did NOT abuse their freedom which is why I find this moronic. Now I think the one that’s not fitting is me.
What will I do? Use the channels that the system lets me to, until I can find a way to change the system, or to change systems altogether.
</rant>
Note: Will update this later with the correct/linked definition from the princeton.edu… yes… it’s blocked too so had to grab it from somewhere else.
Edit: Done.
I’m in class, testing out the wordpress blackberry app, not too fun to thumb-type blog, but hey, it’s testing anyways…
And if you ever need to blog in a pinch (if that fits your reality), it could prove useful.
Check how your eyes can deceive your brain on this link a friend sent me… always stumbling on cool stuff…
Have fun.
The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.
I can’t believe how life did a very abrupt turn some days ago, and I believe for the good too.
This post is about something I find interesting, something I have experienced over and over in life… the “second wind” effect.
During hardships one goes through some stages (I have not done any reading about this, but I will; so if you know a good read, let me know). I refer to hardships not as challenges you put yourself, but about something that goes the exact opposite of what you wanted it to go, and hurts a lot. Here are the stages I have gone through each and every time something has happened.
Please don’t question the logic, it’s my head after all…
- Perception and shock. I become aware of the situation, and sometimes I’m paralyzed and can’t take any action related to what has happened, any action whatsoever for a second, a minute, an hour or even days.
- Denial of what has just happened, my conscious knows, but my subconscious doesn’t accept it. I know it has happened, but still talk, and think as if it hadn’t.
- Awareness, right, so now it has happened, and I know I have to deal with it, but that’s about all I know at this point, don’t know what to do.
- Gloom, at this moment, I’m having a mix of emotions of anger, sadness and what not… I don’t know what to do, but at this stage, I’m more focused on my emotions than on the situation itself.
- Despair, right after being sad/angry/<whatever else>, I start kicking and moving (figuratively speaking), but I keep sinking into those emotions, I can’t organize my thoughts, less can I organize my actions, I still don’t know what to do.
- The halting, knowing that I don’t know what to do (haha, ok I couldn’t put it on other words), and seeing that my past actions didn’t have any effect, I lose hope and slowly start not doing anything at all whatsoever, and start to give up on the situation, and think I won’t be able to solve anything, and can’t go on. This is when anger fades away.
- The drag, right after I think I can’t go any further I keep taking steps realizing that I was underestimating myself, note, this realization is silent. The “distance” I go “dragging” is probably as far as all the other stages mentioned above. I’m still not solving anything, just going along.
- Solace, somehow without a solution I find solace in my steps, somehow I’m not “dragging” anymore but haven’t stopped moving. I realize that everything is clean and clear, at this moment is where acceptance takes place.
- Solution, so, when I have ‘peace’ solutions come either by themselves, or made by myself.
So, what happens in (7) is more or less what is described here: Wikipedia; Second Wind.
I’m at stage 9 of a recent event, and now that I can think I can ask myself this question. Why do solutions come AFTER all that? haha.